> The end result of this announcement is another expensive system only available to the same incumbent of tech giants with tens of billions at their disposal.
Certainly wasn't the case when a public research university partnership seeded by a generous donation from Nvidia co-founder/UF alumnus Chris Malachowsky was formally announced[1] shortly after DGX A100 launch[2] several years ago, never mind the handful of other academic early adopters mentioned in the press release.
Of course, we tend to conveniently forget such exogenous details.
Certainly wasn't the case when a public research university partnership seeded by a generous donation from Nvidia co-founder/UF alumnus Chris Malachowsky was formally announced[1] shortly after DGX A100 launch[2] several years ago, never mind the handful of other academic early adopters mentioned in the press release.
Of course, we tend to conveniently forget such exogenous details.
[1] https://news.ufl.edu/2020/07/nvidia-partnership/
[2] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidias-new-ampere-data-c...